Car replacer



July 6 1926.

s. MYERS CAR REPLACER Filed March 26, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEY July 6,1926. 1,591,875

5. MYERS Y CAR REPLACER Filed March 26, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 M L t r VLLLL &\ 7

Patented July 6, 192%.

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STEVE MYERS, OF EUFFS DALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

Y can REFLACER.

Application filed March 26, 1926. Serial No. 97,685.

The object of this invention is to provide reference to the track rails, and horizon a car replacer adapted to be employed as a part of the track construction at frequent points, so that mine cars or railway cars which have been derailed, will be returned to the rails, andexcessive damage to the ties or to the wheels of the cars will be reduced. V

A further object is to arovide a construction including outer gnarc. rails having their ends diverging with reference to the track and including web portions having bevelled ends over which the flanges of the wheels may ride, with converging rails having bevelled sends, between the tracks, and recessed or cut away in a special manner, and frog points adapted to be connected with the ap proaching ends of the converging rails, by fish plates engaging the aforesaid cutaway portions.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel con struction and arrangement of elements described, illustrated and claimed, it being understood that modifications may be made withinthe scope of the claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming part of this application,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the construction.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a detail view in perspective, showing the recessed end of one of the rails, with a part of the connected plate or web portion over which the wheels ride while being guided back to thetrack rails.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a similar recessed portion, oppositely located.

Figure 5 is a plan view showing a plurality of outer guard rails for each track rail, the guard rails being spaced apart longitudinally of the track.

In Figure 1 the rails of a track are designated 10 and 12, and ties are shown at 13, the rails being spiked thereto in the usual manner. Outer curved rails 14 include flanges 1%, higher than the tread portions of the track rails and include web portions 16 adapted to engage the web portions of the track rails, and provided with longitudinal ribs 17 for direct engagement with said rails. These rails 14 are secured by of bolts 18. l I

The enter ends rails 14. diverse tally extending web portions 19 extend from the web portions 16 and provide inclined .irfaces or bevelled portions the thinner edge being at the end 19. The flanges of the car wheel being elevated by these portions 19, will assume the position required for passing over the tread portions of the track rails.

The inner curved rails 20 have their upper surfaces on av level with the track rails, and the web portions 20 providing longitudinal ribs are suificiently wide to permit of spacing the elements as shown in Figure 2, providing the channel 21 into which the flanges of the car wheels are to be guided.

These inner rails 20 are of about the same length as the rails 14:, and they are recessed or cut away on opposite sides as shownat 22 and 23, the inner walls and the end walls of the recesses being perpendicular to each other. Bolts 18 pass thru the inner and outer guard rails and thru the track rails as shown in Figure 2.

The points or frog points 25 include the converging portions 26 and 27, adapted to aline respectively with the approaching ends of innercurved rails 20, and to be connected therewith by means of fish plates 28, secured by bolts 29. The plates 28 enter the recesses 22 and 23 of Figures 3 and 4, and extend along side of the web portions or members 26 and 27, thereby providing an effective joint between the points 25 and the rail members 20. The portions of rails 20 over which the wheels ride are desig nated 30, and these portions are downwardly inclined towards their ends 31, and are sufficiently wide at this point to bridge the space between the track rails and rails 20.

In the construction shown in Figure 5, the inner rails are designated 35, and are longer than those shown in Figure 1, the points 25 being similarly connected with rails 35, that is connected by means of plates 28 entering recessed portions such as are shown in Figures 3 and 1.

The outer rails of Figure 5 are however shorter than rails 14 of Figure 1, and these shorter rails are designated 86, and they are provided with end portions curved outwardly from the track rails 10 and 12. The web portions 37 correspond with ortions 19 of Figurel, and provide beveled 'diy towards the -i surfaces tapering dow These. shorte and p lifi i fl of em and outer rails 36 extend to 1 pointopposite points 25, and extend in the other direction to the points where rails 35 diverge with reference to the track rails. The construction of Figure 5 is useful at bridges and elsewhere.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

.1. In a device of the class described, track rails, inner and outer rails having their ends diverging with reference to the track rails and mounted alongside of the latter, and'including transversely extending web por'ti'ons inclined down ardly at the ends,

and frog points including diverging portions extending in alineinent with the ends of the inner rails, these ends being recessed, and fish plates mounted in the recessed ends and secured to the points, said plates including flanges extending respectively along the vertical web portions of the inner rails and into the inclined portions of the transverse webs.

In a device of the class described, :1

track rail, an inner ruil extending along S1Cle or the track rzul and having its ends diverging with reference thereto, transversely extending and bevelled web portions formed on the inner rail and extending to the track rail, the transverse web portions and the vertical web portions of the inner rail being cut away at the end providing \vnlls perpendicular to each other, frog points including diverging members, and tish plates connecting the diverging members with the inner rail and extending into the aforesaid cut away portions.

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STEVE MYERS. 

